Doug Barbour

I am a OO Designer/Developer with more than 26 years of commercial OO experience, and I am a perfect match for the "Ruby on Rails Developer" position you advertised on dice.com. I have been exceeding client expectations for many years (www.dsbconsulting.com), and would be able to make significant contributions to your projects. In my last assignment (NYK), my part of the system consisted of about 300 domain classes and 1 million lines of code. That includes both server side (GemStone) and client side (Smalltalk). So you can see I am adept at managing large systems.

As I'm sure you are aware, Ruby borrows heavily from Smalltalk, and consequently, I am very comfortable in the Ruby environment. Additionally, GemStone was one of the first NoSQL databases. Please take a look at the Ruby on Rails system that I am currently working on: https://github.com/dougsbarbour/ImageTrackingSystem. The project was a web-based Image Management System using Ruby on Rails to catalog photographic libraries. A responsive layout using Foundation was utilized to allow use on large and small screens. jQuery and AJAX were used to drive pop-up windows in the UI. Attached images were managed using the Paperclip gem. The application supported data import from XLS files using the simple-spreadsheet gem. The data import into the system used Ruby reflection so that attribute values in the domain model were mapped to columns in the input file without any hard coding.

All of my past projects interfaced to a relation database in some way. I have been using SQL for my entrie career.